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Thanks! @jtbell and JesseM, My thanks to the both of you for your help! You have helped me more than you realize!:biggrin:

A Laymans answers. Wai, I hope that you do not mind a Layman's answers to your questions. 1) From our frame of reference the observer should see the object enter the Accresion Disk in a time relative to the observer. Example, an observer sees an object approach the accresion disk at a...

One more question. @JesseM, How would describe the amount on Energy used. Would it be in Ergs, Joules, Newtons, or Pounds of thrust?

@JesseM, Thank you for explaining this to me. Now you have given me something to work with!:approve:

At the risk of sounding stupid, would you mind giving me an example of this. Say for example that NASA wanted to launch a probe to Alpha Centauri and get it there in say 10 years.

@pmb_phy, Thanks for the article info and the answer to my question! Now I shall go and find the article.:biggrin:

To support your statement. I would say that the statement "One cannot see the forest for the trees" applies here.:biggrin:

@pmb_phy, I am very familiar with the Tachyon, although I have not been able to find any materials on the subject. Would you providing me a source of information so that I can read about them? As for the explanation for "zero rest mass" that you have provided, are you saying that: m^2 =...

@wxrocks, Perhaps I am having trouble distinguishing between "mass" and "weight". Correct me if I am wrong; "Mass" is the measurement of the area that an object occupies, and "weight" is the measurement of the affect that gravity has on an object. Having said that, if I take to atoms of...

Thanks! @HallsofIvy, Thank you so much for this explanation! While it is highly probable that I misunderstood GR and SR, I have posed the idea of traveling faster than the speed of light and it gets shot down by the statement: "you cannot travel faster than light because as you approach...

Mass gained Infinitely?? Would some of you learned folks outhere answer these questions? It is said in GR and SR that an object will gain mass infinitely as it approaches the speed of light. How is this possible? Where does the mass come from? Does this apply to the Photon? If you answer...

Hello ريمان, From Wikipedia: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses of this term, see Spacetime (disambiguation). In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time into a single...

@JesseM, Thanks for clearing that up for me!:biggrin:

@JesseM, Is the term "inertial mass of objects" the same as saying the "weight" of an object?

@RAD4921, Are you wanting to open a discussion on the "Information Paradox" or are you just venting?